The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

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Visionaries navigate truth in pandemic chaos.

If you're keen on understanding the behind-the-scenes action during the initial outbreak of COVID-19, "The Premonition" is a book you shouldn't miss. Michael Lewis is known for his engaging narrative style, and in this book, he brings to light the efforts of unsung heroes and skeptics who saw the crisis coming. It reads like a thriller, but the real-life stakes make it a sobering reflection on the intersection of science, politics, and society.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Regular price RM78.16 MYR
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ISBN: 9780393881554
Authors: Michael Lewis
Date of Publication: 2021-05-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Sociology, History, Science, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.34
(rated by 39044 readers)

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For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be
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Visionaries navigate truth in pandemic chaos.

If you're keen on understanding the behind-the-scenes action during the initial outbreak of COVID-19, "The Premonition" is a book you shouldn't miss. Michael Lewis is known for his engaging narrative style, and in this book, he brings to light the efforts of unsung heroes and skeptics who saw the crisis coming. It reads like a thriller, but the real-life stakes make it a sobering reflection on the intersection of science, politics, and society.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.